Create Your Rainbow: Issue 7 - Elevating Your Community Content and Documentation

Happy weekend friends 💖 

Welcome to the seventh "Create Your Rainbow" issue - a newsletter to help unleash your community creativity. 🌈

The first half of this newsletter is dedicated to educational and informational content written by me. The bottom half is dedicated to updates on what I’ve been working on and premium content for Inner Colors members!

I want to thank everyone who responded to the market research survey I sent this month. Over the next few weeks, I will compile the data and publish a response about what this data might mean for the rest of the web3 community and how it could affect the future of Together.

Elevating Your Community Content and Documentation

I love getting creative when considering new roles and responsibilities that web3 community teams can offer their members. This is part 1 of a series.

I have been known to detail a few in threads on Twitter, so today, here’s another! It’s called - Community Scribe.

In the last issue of Create Your Rainbow, we talked about how the influence of Scouting Organizations worldwide has influenced how I build community. Well, the Scribe is one of the roles I and thousands of others have filled during our youth. By the way, traditionally, this relates to a role that scouts would hold themselves, so in this model, it would be a volunteer selection by community members, not a staff role. However, your configuration and expectations may differ.

While this role doesn’t exist within the Girl Scouts organization in the same way, girls can earn the Scribe badge, which represents merit by completing tasks relating to creative writing. Web3 enables the girlies, non-binaries, and all between, to take roles like this 🫡

As for the Boy Scouts organization, this role is significant. While not having voting power within a troop, it is often a third-in-command role in larger troop models if the patrol leader and assistant patrol leader are away. But why is this? Let’s examine why this role would hold such significance and how it could be implemented in a web3 community team.

Why Is This Important?

The Scribe is essentially the patrol secretary. They perform administrative duties such as:

Attending and keeping a log of council meetings → think documenting Twitter Spaces and events

Recording Scout's attendance and dues payments → curating and sending POAPs to attendees, collecting tips and donations to guest speakers for the community

Records individual Scout advancement progress → documenting community member successes, ranking up within the community, new jobs, big trades, new pets, birthdays, scandalous secrets, etc.

Works with the staff member responsible for records and finances → think community liaison to treasury director or BD team member

What Is The Result of Implementing A Scribe?

You may think this to be entirely arbitrary to our current systems, especially how non-DAO communities operate. You’d be incorrect, the Scribe is an all-knowing, all-seeing observer of the happenings in a community. They know things about you and your peers that would shake the foundations to their very core. Deceptively skilled at disguise and subterfuge. Think “alpha” seeker on another level. Consider the advantages of empowering a community member to assist with these tasks, even just a few.

A role like this can significantly reduce the amount of rug pulls within the space since this is a middle ground between a community member and the core team. It gives direct ownership of tasks that contribute to the community's success and promotes transparency, trust, and connection.

As you may have noticed, this is sort of a background role, so it’s perfect for lurkers and introverts. There’s no need to be overly “active” as most duties are administrative. However, this role would be great for someone seeking to increase their engagement with community members and take on more of a leadership role.

This role would also be great for someone looking to hone their detective and observation skills within their beloved community. Listening in on conversations, you’ll pick up on many bits of information that can be celebrated or noted, such as recording testimonials via screenshots, recording community member birthdays to celebrate, and taking notes during onboarding sessions with new members.

If you lead a community and are interested in implementing this role, I’m happy to discuss it further. And if you’d like to learn how to get more creative with the community roles you build into your mission, send me a message!

Over the life of this newsletter, you’ll be introduced to many concepts, frameworks, and foundations that guide me in web3 community-building efforts. You’ll also have access to some fascinating digital collectible experiments I have planned in the coming months. 👀

Note: If you’re a founder reading this and would like to partner on a community case study for this newsletter, reply to this email or DM me on Twitter. I’d be happy to chat!

International Women’s Day

This week, we celebrated women of web3, and though I have mixed feelings about the day, it was really nice to see the energy surrounding the space on Wednesday! Though we should celebrate women every day of the year, it’s always nice to see a mass celebration of the women we are inspired by.

We must ensure that, when we are celebrating women, that we make visible the contributions of all women, not just the most influential, not just the most popular or vocal, but also those on the fringes, those marginalized, and those who feel invisible amongst us.

CreatorThon by Take Up Space

Take Up Space put on a groundbreaking event for diverse creators in web3 this week called CreatorThon. I attended both days, where over 12 hours of workshops and content from incredible 27 speakers like Yancey Strickler, the magical duo of kiana and steph, and so many other incredibly inspiring individuals came together. I urge you to get involved with these people, get to know them, understand how they create content, and curate our culture.

Latest From HUG

The team at HUG has been working hard to redesign the website housing an amazing curation resource for artists and art lovers of web3, and they did not disappoint. Celebrating a successful launch with new features like a leaderboard, recent reviews, and even a section for exploring art mediums.

I’ve talked about my love for HUG and the way they’ve built an inclusive space for all. Still, I think it’s important to congratulate them on all the successful iterations they’ve made when connecting collectors, curators, and artists all over the space in a really caring way. Providing resources and even workshops like the one held this week. Check it out here! There’s a lot of care that goes into the decisions they make.

Boys Club Giving Zine Realness

Boys Club hit the chain running with their first Zine, minting now on OpenSea. The website housing the magazine content is utterly mindblowing. It’s an actual work of art and you MUST check it out. Read the articles, and be in awe of the work they’ve put into it.

Notable content from the zine I’m LIVING for: Confessions, Broadcast It Babe, and AI Horoscopes.

I especially love the way they’ve made every detail engaging, even down to the ad space. Don’t miss all the little easter eggs and mouse-overs.

Together is helping community professionals establish, validate, and verify their expertise to acquire new jobs with higher wages. We do this through expert-led training modules, certifications, and verifiable credentials.

You can learn more about Together and check out our Twitter Spaces here.

We continue to meet as a community on the weekends in our chats for holders. Since we’re all pretty busy during the week, its so nice to get together to recount things happening the days before, clarify things happening in the space, and learn some new skills.

If you’d like to be a guest host for us, some topics we’re looking to discuss further are: content writing, AI generation, and demos of community tools.

Below are all the Twitter Spaces I’ve spoken in, transcripts, and resources pinned to each.

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